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Discrimination on the basis of national origin can take the form of harassment, disparate treatment, or disparate impact. National origin discrimination involves treating people (applicants or employees) unfavorably because they are from a particular country or part of the world, because of ethnicity or accent, or because they appear to be of a certain ethnic background (even if they are not).

The EEOC has identified a number of ways in which language requirements used by employers can lead to national origin discrimination. After September 11, 2001 (9/11), many individuals of Arab ancestry experienced discrimination in the workplace.

Race refers to a person's physical characteristics, most typically skin color. National origin, on the other hand, refers to where a person was from, or where that person's ancestors were from. The confusion is easy to make since a person's national origin is generally correlated with their race.